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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Well, it's a party for a tiny bit longer! It's Suzanne dropping in here to share a really fun project using the A Way With Words dies for something other than a card!

Several years ago when I was attending the Craft and Hobby Association conference, I was chatting with the folks at Elmers and I said I was looking for a fine glue applicator. The fellow ran away and came back with this very cool kit!

Included in the kit was this paper mache mask, rhinestones and Elmer's CraftBond Fine Line glue pen and their Painters Gold medium paint marker. Sometimes it takes me a little time to get a good idea, but I never forgot about my little packet of goodies. Now was the time!

The base is Distress Paint and all the highlights were made with the Painter's Gold Pen which worked really well. The Fine Line Glue Pen quickly and easily held all the rhinestones in place as well as the diecut It's a Party. Once I got started I could have decorated a dozen of these things. Really fun! I had a little Mardi Gras on my drafting table!

I hope this gives you some ideas for decorating your own masks for whatever party you may throw or attend!
Thanks for stopping by! Suzanne

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Drum roll, please! We have our winners! Congratulations!
Winners were randomly selected from the list of comments on each blog. If you're a winner, please email me privately with your snailmail address! Prizes will be shipped in the next week - or whenever we have all the addresses!

Such a beautiful card Selma! I e been following you for
years!!
Love your work!! Anything I win from Quitfire would make my
decade!!! It's my favourite stuff of all time along with ECD
Which I have always believed were one and the same.....😍😍😍😍

Suzanne

Monday, February 20, 2017

It's a beautiful Tuesday and I hope that you have lots of fun crafty things planned for this week. I have a few cards to share with you using our beautiful "Way with Words" dies from Elizabeth Craft and simple papers that you might have in your stash.

This is one of my favorite cards that I made with the "Cherish" Way with Words dies and you can use it in so many ways just by itself or adding one of Suzanne's stamps that can go with it. For mine i used a deep rich burgundy paper to cut out my sentiment and also used it for the base of the card. I used pretty papers to match and also another die that i had in my stash to create a base for the die to be on. All i needed was to add a bow and a few rhinestones and it was all done... super easy!

Here's a closeup of the Cherish die so you can see all the gorgeous flourishes it has.

And i also had time to make up a quick card using my favorite colors- aqua, black and white. For this card i used the Mr and Mrs die set and a pretty die i had in my stash from "Becca Feeken". I think it's a great match and shows you how nice they fit together. The blue dotted swiss paper gives it a nice contrast with the white and black papers on the top of it.

If you haven't checked already here is a link to all the new releases this month...

And that's all from me today and I am so glad you stopped by... have a wonderful week

Sunday, February 12, 2017

This week we're celebrating the release of the newest dies, stencils and
stamps from Quietfire
Designbysharing our best projects!

Before we get to the good stuff, I'll share my project! I've been wanting to mask one of the diecuts for ages and I've finally got a plan together. I really love the subtlety of this project.
Here is how you can make it, too!

2.Lightly sponge Spun Sugar in all over the white
panel. Allow to dry.

3.Die cut Together from Stamping Mask Paper. Weed out the counterspaces and peel the release paper from the back.

4.Adhere the mask near the bottom of the white
panel as shown. (Designer Tip: If the
Distress Ink is not dry, the mask will not stick to the cardstock!) Lightly sponge over and around the mask with
Victorian Rose.Remove mask. The masking
paper uses a removable adhesive so it is easy to peel off. AND it’s reusable!

5.Stamp the sentiment just above Together.Allow to dry.This is no time to smear it!

6.Adhere the stencil in position with removable
tape and lightly sponge the hearts with Victorian Rose. The stencil doesn't have to be straight. Position it the way you'd like to see the spray arc over the quotation. I like the hearts to appear as if they are
fading out.If you happened to be using
a larger piece of white paper, now is the time to trim it!

7.Assemble the main panel with the mats behind as
shown.Adhere this to the card base with
foam adhesive to give it a bit of dimension.Lovely!

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And now for the good stuff!

Here is our Blog Hop Schedule with the dates each designer will be posting (Click on each person's
name to go to their blog):

Make sure you leave a comment below before midnight Sunday February 19,
2017. A winner will be randomly chosen from my list of comments and the
winner's name will be posted on Quietfire Creations shortly
afterwards. Visit and leave comments on all the designers Queen of
Hearts blog posts for chances to win on their blogs! You can go back if you've missed any of
them.

Raided my end cut cardstock stash and created the weave block. Trimmed to size and adhered to front on an angle. Trimmed excess away.

Created a shadow layer for my words - one way of doing it is by turning the dies down and tracing around the exterior of the die with an x-acto blade, being careful to not cut where the words link together. OR create images to cut with your electronic cutter and use the shadow layer function, welding everything together prior cutting. I cut mine from white cardstock and while still on the mat, painted with Distress dabbers "Aged Mahogany".

Good Morning. This is Selma Stevenson today and I have a fun project for you. You can use the beautiful A Way With Words sentiments for so much more than just cards.

It is nice to prepare early and have cards ready to mail out for special occasions. I created a pretty box, using the beautiful A Way With Words "Special Moments" die cuts on the front, to store the cards in. Here is how I created the box.

The perfect sentiment for this box is the new A Way With Words - Special Moments die set. I wanted this sentiment to stand out on the box, so it was die cut 6 times, using white card stock that had Clear Double Sided Adhesive on the back of each one. This made it easy to 'stack' all the die cuts for the dimensional look. You can use glue, but sometimes that can be messy.

You can create the pretty box by using the Lace Pocket die from Elizabeth Craft Designs, which is the perfect width for 6x6 inch cards or smaller. If you prefer, you can decorate any box similar in size.

I used a Dotted Scalloped Oval to attach the Special Moments die cuts to, and it was attached with dimensional tape to the box. A small bow was added below the sentiment.

If you want to be very organized you can add monthly tabs in the box to organize your cards.

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Hello Crafty Friends! Kathy Jo here sharing a bright and cheerful upcycled mini-jar. The jar was too cute to put in recycling so I decided to create a happy and inspirational jar for my work desk. The stamps "You are Amazing":

After cleaning the jar, white gesso was layered. Distress Crackle (in Picket Fence) was applied and air dried. Next Distress Spray (Mowed Lawn) and Dylusions Spray (Cut Grass) were both spritzed on the bottle. Inka Gold (in Gold) was added along various edges. Last, white paint was flicked randomly on the bottle. The bottle was now ready for the papers.

Both sentiments were stamped onto Graphic 45 papers, fussy cut and mounted on Graphic 45's Nature's Sketchbook papers. Butterflies were also fussy cut and layered as shown. Below are photos of the completed jar:

The stamps make me smile!

Such a bright and cheerful jar...will be so pretty on my desk.

Be Yourself is such a gorgeous stamp!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I do hope you enjoyed the upcycle project. :)